West Africa attack

THE UN envoy for West Africa and the Sahel region, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called for swift action to be taken by the relevant authorities against the perpetrators of an attack on a UN monitoring team near the Nigeria-Cameroon border which killed five people.

According to preliminary reports, an armed group attacked a UN Technical Monitoring Team, killing five individuals – a UN independent contractor, three Nigerians nationals and one Cameroonian national – and injuring several others, UN News reported on Wednesday.

The team was conducting a field mission near Kontcha in Cameroon.